Actually, Gilchrist was probably a good guy to primary, based on the odds
Yeah. Right up until you remember that something like half the district is the Eastern Shore.
Well the Republican almost won, no? The unexpected endorsement of the defeated Congressman of both his Democratic opponent and Barack Obama could be viewed to have tipped the scales. Perhaps if they waited until 2010 to do it, it would have been smarter.
Nominating a candidate from the Baltimore suburbs was playing with fire. The Eastern Shore's attitude is very provincial, especially towards the Western Shore. Obama's only effect was boosting black turnout, since he lost the district by 20 points.
